Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm12a..05f&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM12A-05
Physics
7954 Magnetic Storms (2788), 7959 Models
Scientific paper
Ionospheric oxygen ions have been observed throughout the magnetosphere, from the plasma sheet to the ring current region. It has been found that the O+/H+ density ratio in the magnetosphere increases with geomagnetic activity and varies with storm phases. During the magnetic storm in late September to early October 2002, Cluster was orbiting in the plasma sheet and ring current regions. At pre-storm time, Cluster observed high H+ density and low O+ density in the plasma sheet and lobes. During the storm main phase, O+ density has increased by 10 times over the pre-storm level. Strong field-aligned beams of O+ were observed in the lobes. O+ fluxes were significantly reduced in the central plasma sheet during the storm recovery. However, O+ was still evident on the boundaries of the plasma sheet and in the lobes. In order to interpret the Cluster observations and to understand how O+ ions populate the magnetosphere during a magnetic storm, we model the storm in early October 2002 using our global ion kinetic simulation (GIK). We use the LFM global simulation model to produce electric and magnetic fields in the outer magnetosphere, the Strangeway outflow scaling with Delcourt ion trajectories to include ionospheric outflows, and the Fok inner magnetospheric model for the plasmaspheric and ring current response to all particle populations. We find that the observed composition features are qualitatively reproduced by the simulations, with some quantitative differences that point to future improvements in the models.
Delcourt Dominique C.
Fedder Joel A.
Fok M. H.
Kistler Lynn M.
Moore Thomas Earle
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